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- LAURA STEVENSON
Supported by:
- ANN LIU CANNON
LAURA STEVENSON
Music is a resource we can tap into to heal ourselves,” Laura Stevenson says. She’s talking about her studies in a music therapy graduate program, but her explanation parallels the overarching message of her sixth full-length album Late Great — a record that finds Stevenson excavating the messy emotions of heartbreak for the very first time. “When I started this new career path a few years ago, I kind of quieted my own healing relationship to music, just because I honestly didn’t have time, but this record was me getting back to it. This was me processing, and reconnecting with that part of myself and it carried me through.” In the four years since her self-titled album was released, Laura’s entire life has been upended by pandemic-era motherhood, a painful split, and navigating new loves. Her new album is about letting go, taking charge, and learning to rebuild from the deepest layers of your being: “It’s a document of loss for sure, but it also kind of draws the map of this exciting precipice that I’m standing on. I am making my own life now. With the record, with everything, this is the first time I get to call all the shots.”
ANN LIU CANNON
Eccentric chamber-pop and prog-folk, Ann’s sensitive and powerful voice haunts her moving songs. Her debut record ‘Clever Rabbits’ made the UK charts last summer on its independent self-release, after being discovered and produced by Ethan Johns (Paul McCartney, Laura Marling), they blend Anglo-Celtic-Chinese folk and digital synthesis with her classical singer-songwriter grounding, making for a poetic and adventurous debut record. Alongside her debut EP, Chalk, Ann’s music has continually been influenced by the chalk landscape she grew up in; rich with standing stones and ancient landmarks. Ann is currently writing and recording a new project in a blossoming world of psychedelic pop and indie folk.